Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of deviations, abnormalities, risk factors, and pathologies that
in themselves would never cause symptoms (this applies only to risk factors and pathology) …

Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that is not associated with a substantial
health hazard and that patients have no benefit to be aware of. It is neither a misdiagnosis …

Overdiagnosis has many definitions, but semantically it means too much diagnosis, and it is
frequently defined as a diagnosis of a condition that is not causing harm and will never …

Overdiagnosis is a fundamental challenge to modern health care [1]. It is claimed to be ''the
biggest problem posed by modern medicine''[2], leading to unnecessary suffering and …

Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that bears no substantial health hazard
and no benefit for patients to be aware of. Resulting mainly from the use of increasingly …

Medicine's much hailed ability to help the sick is fast being challenged by its propensity to
harm the healthy. A burgeoning scientific literature is fuelling public concerns that too many …

The position paper on overdiagnosis from the Norwegian College of General Practice is the
first of its kind to be adopted by a national medical college. In terms of a critique of the …

Overdiagnosis is a growing problem worldwide. Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of
deviations, abnormalities, risk factors, and pathologies that in themselves would never …

The issue of too much medicine and overdiagnosis has drawn considerable attention in the
high-income countries. However, in the low-income and low-middle income countries …

The past few decades have seen medical science making rapid strides in the field of
diagnostic technologies, thus making it possible to detect some conditions at a very early …